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A virtual card is just a different card number than the actual card number. It’s the same concept as how Apple Pay generates a throwaway unique card number for each transaction. We have Capital One and it lets you make as many virtual cards as you want. The main difference being it’s not a...

That’s a pretty good idea, she’d totally go for it. Thanks! We’re using an older UV printer also and those prints in the same football stadium fade within 3 years. We’ve been using liquid laminate on them for a couple years now so I’m interested to see how those hold up. But we may decide that...

Our 550 gets an error saying the LCD touch screen lost communication and all you can do is reboot it. Never actually seen it happen while running the machine - it’s always overnight and then I come in the next morning to the sound of the cooling fans for the lamps running. Which is weird since...

Now that I think about it, before we printed our own exterior graphics we had a local vendor do them for us. Theirs have been in the same football stadium since 2017, right next to some of our graphics we printed a month later on our solvent printer. Theirs are latex and have held up about as...

We’re in Sacramento, CA so it’s very hot and dry here and things fade fast. I should clarify that our customer replaces the graphic on these every 2-3 years because sponsors change, but we have other 16 oz banners out there that are dark blue that have faded about one whole shade in the swatch...

Thanks for the responses. My boss has decided we’re going to run solvent since we already know how they hold up.

We’re wrapping the pads at a football stadium with ads printed on 16 oz scrim blockout. We’ve printed small batches previously on our eco-solvent Roland VS540 and they last 2-3 years with no lam and minimal fading. Now we have a latex HP 365 which prints much faster but I’m wondering if the...

I would manually set the registration marks at that point but I’m not familiar with that particular cutter so I’m not sure if you have that option. Also when setting reg marks manually I have to use the native software rather than Flexi because Flexi doesn’t seem have an option for that. But...

I don’t know about FB but I think using Google adwords only increased the number of bs calls & phone spam

I work in the sign division of a regular print shop and I would say why take that on yourself? Running copiers/digital printers, keeping them stocked with ink and paper and maintenance is a whole other specialty. Find a local printer who keeps your catalog on file and digitally prints whatever...

They’re mostly indoors We only lam window perf if our customer is insistent or it’s on a vehicle. Our neighbor insisted on lam even though his window faces opposite of the afternoon sun. It’s Clear Focus Image Vue 65/35 with Curvalam and though it was streaky at first it’s been up several...

8518 would be my pick too since we stock it and are getting it for a good price for it. We’ve also used ClearFocus Curvalam with good results.

We use Montroy. Grimco used to service our HP Scitex flatbed but it’s old now and they don’t work on them anymore. They may still service other models. Check the vendors in your area who attend the big conferences and chances are if they sell HP they may have someone who works on off-contract...

Our card number kept getting stolen and we do business with all kinds of promo products vendors so it was impossible to track down. Now we issue a different virtual card with a unique number for each vendor so if it gets stolen we can tell where the leak is and the actual card doesn’t have to be...

Ours does this every once in a while but it always comes back after a reboot. It seems to happen whenever there’s a power fluctuation even though it’s on it’s own power supply. Usually it’s overnight or on a weekend, I’ll come in the following morning to a message that says something like it...

In my part of California it’s a bit unseasonably cool and breezy, but we don’t mind since it’s usually 90+ degrees from now until November. We had awful air quality (over 1000 in some areas of the foothills) a couple of years ago with all the wildfires near us, but last year’s fire season...

We use Catapult https://catapultsupplies.com/silicone-edge-graphic-system/

Look for popup banner material. Grimco has a 12 oz under the Duratex line and there is also a 15 oz Ultraflex that’s available at Glantz and Fellers. Fellers has their own house brand called Popup but we started having issues with a lot of weird voids and chunks of foreign material a couple of...

I would try to find a local sign shop who does trade work. It can be very beneficial to partner with someone local who has different capabilities than you. Otherwise Signs365 or B2Sign are fine for basic things like window perf, clings etc and it’s quick & easy to get quotes on their websites.

Designing your vector logo in Photoshop :rolleyes: Or how about this one from my early days at Kinko’s - “can you fax a key?”